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Key to the Species. 



Mantle bronze-green ; grey parts tinged with pink. . C. ccnea, p. 10. 

 Mantle dark green, not bronzed ; no pink tinge .... C. insularis, p. 20. 



1284. Carpophaga aenea. The Green Imperial Pigeon. 



Golumba Eenea, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 283 (1760). 

 Columba sylvatica, Tickell, J. A. S. B. ii, p. 581 (1833). 

 Carpophaga renea, Jerdon, Madr. Jour. L. S. xii, p. 11 ; Gould, 



P.Z. & 1859, p. 150; Walden, Ibis, 1873, p. 314; Hume, S. F. 



ii, p. 260 ; Sail, S. F. ii, p. 424 ; iv, p. 235 ; v, p. 418 ; vii, p. 224 ; 



Blyth $ Wald. Birds Burm. p. 144 ; Hume, N. $ E. p. 496 ; 



Armstrong, S. F. iv. p. 337 ; Inylis, S. F. v, p. 39 ; Hume $ Dav. 



S. F. vi, p. 416 ; Hume, Cat. no. 780 ; Binyham,, S. F. ix, p. 194 ; 



Parker, ibid. p. 481 ; Leyye, Birds Ceyl. p. 718 ; Oates, B. B. ii, 



p. 301 ; Anderson, Jour. Linn. Soc., Zool. xxi, p. 152 ; Hume, 



S. F. xi, p. 294; Oates in Humes N. $ E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 366 ; 



Davidson, Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. v, p. 329 ; ix, p. 489 ; Saluadori, 



Cat. B. M. xxi, p. 190. 

 Carpophaga sylvatica, Bli/th, J. A. S. B. xiv, p. 856 ; xxvii, p. 270 ; 



id. Cat. p. 231 ; Jerdon, B. I. iii, p. 455 ; Myth, Ibis, 1867, 



p. 248 ; Beavan, ibid. p. 332 : Blanford, J. A. S. B. xxxviii, pt. 2, 



p. 188. 

 Carpophaga pusilla, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xviii, p. 816 (1849) ; id. Cat. 



p. 232 ; Layard, A. M. N. H. (2) xiv, p. 58 ; Blyth, Ibis, 1867, 



p. 148 ; Hume, Cat. no. 780 ter. 



Dunked or Dumkal, Sona Kabutra, Barra harial. H. ; Poaonna, Mai. ; 

 Kukurani guwa, Tel. ; Maratham prda, Tarn. (Ceylon) ; Maha nila yoya, 

 Matabatayoya, Cing. 



Coloration. Head, neck, find lower parts to vent ashy grey with 

 a pink tinge ; forehead and chin whitish ; back, rump, upper tail- 

 coverts, and outer surface of wings bronze-green, often bluish or 

 purplish in patches ; tail bluish green above ; primaries and 

 secondaries blackish above, more or less grey on the outer webs ; 

 rectrices and quills beneath dull brown with a yellowish tinge; 

 under tail-coverts liver-coloured (dark dull maroon). 



Bill grey, the region of the nostrils dull red ; irides red ; edges 

 of the eyelids, legs and feet purplish red (Gates'). 



Length 17 : tail 6-5 ; wing 9 ; tarsus 1-1 ; bill from gape 1'4. 

 There is considerable variation in size, and specimens from Travan- 

 core and Ceylon (C. pusilla) have the wings only 8 to 8'5 inches 

 long. 



Distribution. In the Peninsula of India this Pigeon is found 

 only in the forest-region east of long. 80 from the Ganges to a 

 little south of the Godavari, and in the Malabar coast region as far 

 north as Canara. It may occur near Bombay, but this is doubtful *. 



* There is in the British Museum a specimen labelled Bombay from Sykes's 

 collection, but the species is not recorded in Sykes'a li. K t, and a specimen 

 of the Himalayan Dendrotreron hodgsoni, also from Svkes's collection, occurs 

 similarly labelled. Butler, in the ' Bombay Gazetteer,' says that Carpophaga 

 tenea was included in Major Lloyd's Konkan list and that he may have seen it 

 once himself at Khandala. But neither Fairbauk nor Vidal records it. 



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